November 26th - November 30th

Welcome back! Hope everyone had a nice and relaxing week away from school. I enjoyed reading through the student's animal research projects. There were some really fantastic projects. I am pleased to see students spent a lot of time and put in great effort to completing this assignment.

MATH

Monday: 6-9 Problem Solving: Multiple-Step Problems
Tuesday: Alternative Test in class and review
Wednesday: Enhanced Topic 6 Test in class
Thursday: 7-1 Division as Sharing
Friday: 7-2 Division as Repeated Subtraction


READING - REVIEW Week for Unit 3 
         Unit 3 Topic test Wednesday-Friday

Animal Adaptations - How do living things adapt to change?

✓ Identify key details and main idea 

✓ Identify reasons and evidence

✓ Make inferences about causes and effects

✓ Identify key details and main idea
✓ Analyze text connections: Compare and contrast
✓ Use information from photographs 
✓ Analyze graphic features: charts

✓ Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic

WRITING

Research for writing

1. Analyze a guiding research question 
2. Evaluate print sources: copyright and 
   author 
3. Evaluate online sources 
4. Use key words to search 
5. Take notes on index cards 

Dialogue is a conversation between characters.
Quotation marks show the exact words a character says.
Adjectives are describing words.
Adverbs describe or tell more about verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. 

WORD STUDY/SPELLING
Closed syllable pattern
R-controlled vowels (er, ir, ur)

LANGUAGE

Review: coordinating and subordinating conjunctions

A coordinating conjunction combines two simple sentences to form a compound sentence. Some coordinating conjunctions are and, or, but, and so. Always use a comma before a coordinating conjunction.

A subordinating conjunction connects a simple sentence and a fragment. The words although, because, when, unless, while, and after are subordinating conjunctions.

SCIENCE:
The students will be working on the changes that happen to environments whether they are natural disasters or man made issues.

THANK YOU!

I just wanted to say that I am so thankful to have had such wonderful conferences with you all. It was a pleasure to meet you all and spend some quality time going over your child's education. I hope that this break treats you all well. Some reminders to the students that they are encouraged to do two or more reading journals. The introduction to the reading journal was given on Thursday and Friday. Students are still to read for 20 + minutes and then write a Thinking Map "Circle Map" and then summarize with 4-5 sentences. They should not include their opinion on the story in their summary. Only the main idea and key details from the section that they read. In January the students will have a specific weekly skill that they will be focusing their reading journal readings on, but until then we will stick with the summary. Below is an example of the circle map with some ideas for the summary.

November 13th - November 16th

This is the final week of conferences. I have been enjoying our meetings as we go over student progress. Reminder this week students are still getting out at 1 o'clock. The week of Monday November 19th through Friday November 23rd is no school. There is no assigned work for that week. 

MATH

Tuesday: 6-5 8 as a Factor

Wednesday: 6-6 Multiplying with 3 Factors
Thursday: 6-7 Multiplication Facts

Friday: 6-8 Multiplying to Find Combinations

READING

Story: 

“One Body, Many Adaptations”

CLOSE READ TASKS
✓ Identify key details and main idea ✓ Identify reasons and evidence
✓ Make inferences about causes and effects
✓ Compare and contrast texts on the same topic

WRITING
Research for writing

1. Analyze a guiding research question
   
2. Evaluate print sources
   
3. Evaluate online sources
   
4. Use key words to search
   
5. Take notes on index cards
   

WORD STUDY/SPELLING
Closed syllable pattern

better black blended munching

predators quickly sticky suddenly

LANGUAGE
Review: coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
A coordinating conjunction combines two simple sentences to form a compound sentence. Some coordinating conjunctions are and, or, but, and so. Always use a comma before a coordinating conjunction.
A subordinating conjunction connects a simple sentence and a fragment. The words although, because, when, unless, while, and after are subordinating conjunctions.

SCIENCE/WRITING
We will continue to work on multiple paragraphs and informational writing. The students will be working on a written project of a assigned habitat. They will be editing and revising before presenting them. DUE this Friday is their animal project. 

November 5th - Nov. 9th

Welcome to the start of conference time. It will be from Wednesday, November 7th until November 16th. The students will be out at 1:00 o'clock each day. Reminders for your conference time have gone out. I hope you can all make it.

MATH
Monday: 6-1: Distributive Property
Tuesday: 6-2: 3 as a Factor
Wednesday:6-3: 4 as a Factor
Thursday: 6-5: 6 and 7 as a Factor
Friday: 6-6: 8 as a Factor

READING

UNIT 3 - Animal Adaptations
How do living thins adapt to change?
Story: Fur, Skin, Scale, or Feathers
Close Read Tasks:

✓ Identify key details and main idea
✓ Analyze compare/contrast text connections 
✓ Identify text connections: reasons and evidence 
✓ Use text evidence to make inferences
✓ Compare/contrast information from graphic features 

Writing:

Research for writing

1. Analyze a guiding research question
   
2. Evaluate print sources: using text
   features
   
3. Evaluate online sources
   
4. Use key words to search
   
5. Take notes on index cards

Word Study:

R-controlled vowels (er, ir, ur) 

Language:

Dialogue is a conversation between characters.
Quotation marks show the exact words a character says.
Adjectives are describing words.
Adverbs describe or tell more about verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. 

SCIENCE
Students have selected an animal that they have begun researching on in class and home. They will be working independently on this project. There are two pieces to the packet the first is a single worksheet due Friday, Nov. 9th to be checked by me and then sent back home. The main packet is due Friday, Nov. 16th.
In class they will be working on different habitats including desert, tundra, ocean, tide pool, forest, and grassland. Together they will be presenting the habitat to the class next week.